Hospitals such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston are trying “disclosure-and-resolution programs” where they “reveal an adverse event, apologize, and when appropriate, offer compensation,” as FierceHealthcare reported.

But larger payments don’t mean more forgiveness, a study has found.

Researchers looked at the effects of different compensation offers on responses to disclosures of medical errors. They found that offers of full compensation, as opposed to other offers such as waiving medical expenses, did not decrease the likelihood of seeking legal advice.

In fact, the higher offers “increased the likelihood that people perceived the disclosure and apology as motivated by providers’ desire to avoid litigation,” according to the study, published in the journal Health Affairs.